What do art historians call the courses of dressed stones used in the construction of the Great Pyramids?
Ashlar Masonry
What was the lifeline of ancient Egypt?
Nile River
Which empire made Egypt one of its province after 30 BCE?
Rome
What was the primary purpose of most Egyptian funerary art?
Equating the deceased's existence in the afterlife to life on earth
What is the symbolism of the crowns worn by the king on the Narmer palette?
They refer to the unification of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is the first known named artist, and who was his patron?
Imhotep and Djoser
What do art historians now believe was the model for the shape of the pyramids at Gizeh?
The ben-ben
What neighboring kingdom, mentioned in Early Kingdom texts, later conquered Egypt?
Kush
How and why does the style of the Amarna period depart from the traditional Egyptian canon?
The curving forms contradicted the rigid lines of the traditional Egyptian canon just as Akhenaton's new religion contradicted the old.
What accounts for the similarity of the statue of Mentuemhet to the figure of Menkaure in the statue of Menkaure and Khamerernebty?
The Egyptian canon
Who of the following was not a Fourth Dynasty pharaoh?
Djoser
What Middle Kingdom form took on the function of the Old Kingdom mastabas?
The rock-cut tomb
What was the purpose of Egyptian royal portraiture?
To highlight the divinity of the pharaoh
What earlier architectural form does the stepped pyramid resemble in form but not purpose?
Ziggurat
What is the name of the chancellor/architect-engineer who served during the reign of Hatshepsut?
Senenmut
Which falcon-headed god was the son of Osiris and hunted down his father's murderer, Seth?
Horus
What was the primary objective of mummification?
Immortality
When was the Pre-Dynastic and Early Period?
3500-2575 BCE
When was the Old Kingdom?
2575-2134 BCE
When was the Middle Kingdom?
2040-1640 BCE
When was the New Kingdom?
1550-1070 BCE
Palette of Narmer
3000-2920 BCE (early dynastic), Ancient Egyptian
Propaganda for Narmer; something functional made with artistry (used for crushing makeup materials); Hieratic scale, etc.
Ba
soul that can go between the real world and afterlife
Ka
In ancient Egypt, the immortal human life force.
Compare and contrast the pyramids and the temples
a lot